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Infirmity in Antiquity and the Middle Ages
This volume discusses infirmitas (’infirmity’ or ’weakness’) in ancient and medieval societies. It concentrates on the cultural, social and domestic aspects of physical and mental illness, impairment and health, and also examines frailty as a more abstract, cultural construct. It seeks to widen our understanding of how physical and mental well-being and weakness were understood and constructed in the longue durée from antiquity to the Middle Ages. The chapters are written by experts from a variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history and philology, and pay particular attention to the differences of experience due to gender, age and social status. The book opens with chapters on the more theoretical aspects of pre-modern infirmity and disability, moving on to discuss different types of mental and cultural infirmities, including those with positive connotations, such as medieval stigmata. The last section of the book discusses infirmity in everyday life from the perspective of healing, medicine and care.
The Inquisitor
As the second book in the CHAIN OF WITNESSES series opens, Anseo and Eveline Tescher's grandson, James, has just turned 13. His father, Henry, is trying to counsel him about some important decisions he needs to make. Choices made by James' family will land them in jail as heretics and lead to serious consequences for everyone. Will the outcome of all these choices help him move his life in the right direction? Join the Tescher family and many other historical figures. You will experience their heartache, humanly insurmountable obstacles, and surprising events along this incredible journey of faith. One of the historical characters that we will meet is the Little Greek engineer, Sorbolo who s...
Dissimulation and Deceit in Early Modern Europe
In this book, twelve scholars of early modern history analyse various categories and cases of deception and false identity in the age of geographical discoveries and of forced conversions: from two-faced conversos to serial converts, from demoniacs to stigmatics, and from self-appointed ambassadors to lying cosmographer.
Converting Bohemia
This book sheds light on the course of the Counter-Reformation and the nature of early modern Catholicism.
Toledot Yeshu: The Life Story of Jesus
This database supplements our critical edition and presents the full texts of all the available Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts.
Festivities, Ceremonies, and Rituals in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown in the Late Middle Ages
This book deals with various examples and aspects of rituals and ceremonies in the late medieval Bohemian lands. The individual contributions explore particular rituals (coronation, wedding, funeral) or environments (cities, nobility, court, church).
Virtue Ethics in the Middle Ages
This collection surveys the tradition of medieval commentaries on Aristotle's "Nicomachean Ethics" from its thirteenth-century origins to the fifteenth century, concentrating on the conception of the moral and intellectual virtues in a continuous interplay of ancient and Christian moral thought.
A Companion to Medieval Vienna
This volume provides a multidisciplinary view on the complexity of an emerging city, offering, for the first time in English, an overview of the current state of research on Vienna in the Middle Ages.
